From 15-18 October we are going to host an international conference to celebrate the centenary of Les Formes Élémentaires de la Vie Religieuse at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in the City of Porto Alegre, Brazil.
If you want more specific informations, please let your comment to this post or email to weiss.raquel@gmail.com, or check our website: www.durkheim-br.org
Right below you can find the definitive program.
Les Formes Elementaires: 100 Years of a Classic
Porto Alegre – Brazil
15 October
18:00-20:00– Opening Section
– Speech from local authorities
– Opening Conference – “A Hundred Years After”
William Watts Miller
– Cocktail and book lauching: “A Durkheimian Quest: Solidarity and the Sacred”, from W. Watts Miller (Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford, 2012)
16 October
15:00 – 17:00- Les Formes Elementaires: Sacred and Morality in Contemporary World
Massimo Rosati [Universitá di Roma – Tor Vergata]
Raquel Weiss [UFRGS – Brasil]
18:00-20:00 – The Meaning of Les Formes Elementaires to the Social Sciences
Paula Montero [USP]
Matthieu Béra [Université de Bordeaux]
17 de Outubro
15:00 – 17:00: Les Formes Elementaires and the Question of Knowledge
Márcio de Oliveira – [UFPR]
Susan Stedman Jones [British Centre for Durkheimian Studies]
18:00-19:30 Special Section in Honour of W. Pickering
Nick Allen [Oxford University]
“Les Formes Elementaires and the Work of W. Pickering”
18 de Outubro
10:00-12:00 – Internal meeting
Meeting with guests professors and professors from the university to discuss institutional partnerships. Presentation of the newly created “Brazilian Centre for Durkheimian Studies”
14:30-17:00 – Historical Perspectives on Les Formes Elementaires
Rafael Faraco Benthien [USP]
François Pizarro Nöél [Université du Québec à Montreal]
José Benevides Queiroz [UFMA]
18:30 -19:30 –Keynote Speech
Prof. Edward Tiryakian[Duke University]
“Past, Present and Future of Les Formes Elementaires”